German savants photograph lightning to study current
The Hegister reports two German savants have photographed several lightning flashes, enabling estimation of the electric current length and strike locality. Additional experiments are expected to yield valuable results. Brussels clocks show a perpetual clock begun over a year ago, using sun drafts to wind a weight and brake a rising mechanism, with the clock now running perfectly.
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Harenset
Brussels
Street fakir on where to prosper in cities
Baltimore America cites interviews with traveling con artists who praise Chicago as the best city for sales. They say Chicago residents buy new items at any price. They rate New York Boston and Philadelphia as fair to good and fault Western cities other than Chicago, naming St Louis Cincinnati and Cleveland as worst.
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Baltimore
America
Chicago
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Cleveland
American tastes and a wary view of foreign imports
A commentary condemns admiration for foreign things such as the allanthus and English sparrows, praising native forests and birds. It also notes Patent Office statistics, calls for fee reductions, and reports Miss Melinda Parr’s rushed Milwaukee marriage to the wrong Cowhin, seeking divorce a week later.
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Melinda Parr
Milwaukee
Melinda
Man Escapes Bull and Hornets in White County Adventure
A young man in White County Georgia capsized crossing a river in a bateau and lost a watch hat and shoe. He climbed a tree to escape a bull, fell fracturing his wrists but kept the animal at bay and eventually escaped. The tale blends local peril with a note on Southern progress from the New Orleans Times-Democrat citing rises in assessed state valuations railroad miles and raw product value alongside New Orleans trade gains.
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White County
Georgia
New Orleans
South
The Wise Man Refuses a Seat on the Car
A Chicago correspondent reports Charles O Connor insisting on standing aboard a crowded car despite a vacant seat. He declines offers from a woman and others, then angrily confronts a heckler until he proclaims he will stand to rest.
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Charles O’conor
Chicago
Railway fare clash over Omaha to San Francisco reduction
A discussion in papers and rail circles centers on a $3 fare cut from Omaha to San Francisco. Once 100, now 95, the 1,900 mile trip costs 5 cents per mile, seen as a high rate amid new lines and rising competition.
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Omaha
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Novelty Boy Giant Arrives With Unusual Size In Dallas
Mr Z W Moore of Kaufman County and his seven year old son arrived in the city. The boy weighs 106 pounds and has six toes on each foot and five fingers on the left hand excluding the thumb. His bones are unusually large for his age and his growth began early. He stood 75 pounds at age three and has been healthy and intelligent, with no illnesses.
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Z. W. Moore
Kaufman County
Dallas
Tex
Vast Rocky Mountain forests could ease lumber famine
The San Francisco Journal of Commerce notes the Rock Mountain forests stretch over 700 miles, with virgin timber likely sufficient to meet global demand. The article estimates 4,032,000,000 to 4,000,000,000 feet of lumber worth about 25,000,000,000 dollars in logs, while California holds 12,000,000 acres of woodlands producing about 500,000,000 feet annually.
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California
Mississippi Valley
San Francisco Journal of Commerce
Rock Mountain
South America
Arizona
Panther and Wolves From Adventures on North American Wilds
Old hunter John Cheney recalls Adirondack lore about the yellow panther the most dangerous predator. He describes a Lake Henderson incident where two wolves chased prey, a huge panther attacked, they fell from a ledge into snow, and Cheney killed the panther after a long chase ending with a shoulder shot and a five-foot body.
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John Cheney
Adirondacks
Mr. Cheney
Lake Henderson
Lake
Seattle
Agricultural notes on crops and farming practices in the era
An exchange describes seed wheat processing yielding 18 bushels from 100 through a fanving mill and notes Virginia and North Carolina peanuts as profitable. Details on oats versus corn and wheat nitrogen use follow, with warnings about soil exhaustion in Kansas and a method for shocking wheat. It also discusses weed management and the value of manure heaps in preserving seed vitality.
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New York
Jersey
Baltimore
Virginia
North Carolina
Chicago Journal
Tuost
Kansas
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Labor Value Versus Waste Savings Questioned
The Germantown Telegraph notes that labor input and the profitability of reducing waste remain intertwined questions. Even with waste material deemed valuable in theory, practical gains depend on how labor efficiency translates into cost savings.
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Germantown
Household recipes and kitchen tips from old columns
A collection of culinary hints and domestic advice includes lemon whey milk, butter and egg mixtures for desserts, and a lemon flavored drink. It also offers carpet care with cornmeal and salt, tea and coffee notes, tips on fancy luncheon cloths, cough remedies with sugar, and cherry syrup preparation with steps and substitutions.
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Berrer
Vichy
Carlsruhe
England
Air Castles from Zephyr Ball Toys
A Battleboro Ft. Household guide describes making three triangular zephyr Ball toys of sizes largest, five medium, and seven small. Each ball uses three square pieces with easy patterns or embossed pictures, joined by zephyr thread to form a castle display with tassels and hanging threads.
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Battleboro
Oil magnate rebuked for winking odds and ends
In a street car break an irate woman accused a man of winking at her thrice. He claimed to own 95 000 barrels of oil and said price squeezes forced his mood. He denied the wink as the car bell rang and the moment passed. Carr B Powain of Micanopy Florida reports a 200 by 80 foot scuppernong grape arbor yielding over 100 bushels this year.
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Carr. B. Powain
Micanopy
Fla
Townsend chimney of Glasgow rises 468 feet tall
The Townsend chimney in Glasgow stands 468 feet high and holds 1,400,000 bricks. It towers over neighboring structures and dominates the town’s skyline. Goop breeding is described as a lack of a specific profession mark paired with overall elegant demeanor.
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Glasgow
London in Henry VIII Time Civic Pageantry and Poverty
The article describes Henry VIII era London where extravagant civic shows peaked while most citizens endured hardship. It notes wealth concentrated among few, spectacles as exclusive amusements, crowded narrow streets, poor housing with clay floors, and plague risk from crowded living conditions. The metropolis was confined within city walls with suburbs sparse and a single central thoroughfare through Aldersgate to Ludgate crowded by goldsmiths and exclusive trades.
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London
Henry VIII
Smithfield
Strand
Charing Cross
Nerely
St. Giles
Erasmus
Aldersgate
Ludgate
National
Old English Weddings in quaint past and modern excess
The London Telegraph criticizes modern wedding excess citing old English rites with rosemary, wheat, flower crowned boys, and simple wafers as a pleasing contrast to lavish contemporary customs. It contrasts Christmas trees valentines and Easter eggs with their expensive adornments, arguing that imitation of continental fashion has degraded symbolic meaning. The piece laments grand wedding cakes and luxury, praising simpler ceremonies and shared conviviality.
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London Telegraph
Olin Ophir's Oddities: Witty Aphorisms and Paraphrases
A compact collection of humorous maxims and curiosities attributed to Carl Pret eel's Weekly. It blends quips on walking, prudence, silence, time, ignorance, and social behavior with satirical takes on human foibles and manners.
Sunshine and Sleep Aid for Sleepless Women
In this advice column, readers are urged to embrace sunshine over laudanum to combat sleeplessness and pale complexions. It warns of common household poisons like oxalic acid arsenic and strychnine, advising secure storage away from servants and children, plus basic first aid for acute poisoning and cautions about lead and arsenic in pipes paints and toys.
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America
A Land of the Road China as a land of deal
A traveler reports China as a vast land of burial practice. In the north graves often lie in fields or roadsides. Rich relatives raise earth mounds, poorer families place coffins in fields, cover them with straw, or mark them with small brick structures. Wind and rain expose the coffins across the landscape.
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China
City versus country schools in New York State
Albany Journal argues city schools outperform rural ones noting longer school terms of forty weeks versus twenty eight and a decline in trained teachers. It laments few stone houses and many frame structures and says city students gain more from opportunities. The piece also mentions a three year old, 5200 pound cow owned by John Pratt of Chase county Kansas as a curious aside.
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New York
Albany Zoeying Journal
America
John Pratt
Chase County
Kansas
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